The idea of owning property early on, is to move up the ladder as and when you need to change your home, hopefully benefitting from making good investments at the same time.

There are many reasons why people need to do this. They may want extra space due to adding to their family, it might be that they need to move to a different location maybe for work or family requirements.

However, if you don’t need to move right now, and you are quite happy being in your current home, you may feel tempted to make more use of the space you have. Often improving your current home adds value and can pay off in the long run.

You may want to consider which upgrades you can make to create a more efficient home. Think about how you use your home and which are your pain points? Do you currently struggle with everyone using the internet? If so should you think about the speeds of your current service and whether to have fiber vs cable internet? Do you have older children who need a space to hang out with friends while they’re gaming?

Are you always wishing you could have a bigger patio area? Would a covered glass veranda make more of your outdoor space throughout the year, whatever the weather. There are so many things you can do now to improve your current home. We thought we would share a few suggestions.

Extend your home

One of the first things you can consider doing is extending your home. This is a great way to change the floor plan, and the layout of your home, and make it a more usable space. While also increasing the square footage.

Thankfully, getting the help of a home builder or expert could help you make more of the space you have. It could even give you the chance to extend your property enough so that you could encourage grandparents to stay with you for savings on bills and for family ease.

Extending your home enables you to make better use of the space and even increase the living areas that you have. Making your current home work for you. Adding a bedroom adds value to your home, whether you decide to sell in the future or not.

Does it work for your family

Often our desire to change our home is due to the changing needs of the little people we share it with! Everything with children has a season and it’s natural that the setup you required when they were tiny may be different as they grow.

We are gradually adapting our home as our children become bigger, this is to be expected. We’ve found keeping bedroom walls neutral is a great way to avoid big decorating jobs. Then you can adapt accessories, bedding and wall art as your children’s interests develop.

One of the main considerations is where they sleep. We recommend Room to Grow, who are a children's bedroom expert, and have a wide range of furniture. They supply mid sleepers, cabin beds, loft beds, toddler beds, and more to families across the UK.

Make more of the garden

One thing you might want to try and do is make more of the garden. This is a great way to make more of the space you have and create a more user-friendly garden that can be used all year round.

It might be that you invest some time and effort into making it the best it can be. Such as lawn care, adding some new plants and flowers to the flowerbeds, or even things like artificial grass to make it easy to maintain.

You may want to consider adding an entertainment space so that you can eat outside and even cook or BBQ in nicer surroundings.

If you can’t really extend the house, adding a garden room is becoming very popular. These can be used as an office, gym, tv room or you can even run a small business like personal training from these spaces.

Decorate it to your personality and tastes

We can often be a little tempted to not decorate our homes exactly how we would like. In many cases, we tend to stick with neutral colours incase we choose to sell. This means that you can then appeal to the masses and perhaps potentially sell your home quicker.

However, if you do plan on staying where you are for a while, then why not take the opportunity to decorate your home exactly how you would like? This means injecting your personality and your own tastes into the decoration of your home.

Often this can change how you feel about the space and make you want to stay afterall.

Improve the kerb appeal

Finally, you could consider trying to improve your home’s kerb appeal. It can be quite simple to achieve as you can look at improving the front garden, clearing up drives and pathways, and taking on tougher chores like clearing the gutters and cleaning the windows. Simple improvements that can make a big impact.

Using lighting, evergreen shrubs (which are less difficult to maintain) or getting your windows cleaned regularly all make a difference.

We hope that this helps you to make more of your current home and you start to delight in what you see when you arrive at the front door!